Freshwater and marine fisheries, fishers’ livelihoods, and resource depletion.
In the small fishing villages of Satun and Trang in southern Thailand, fishers walk into mangroves for crabs and shellfish, run bamboo-raft tours in national parks, and co-run a restaurant and chilli paste workshop—turning the sea they fought for into a family livelihood.
In Andaman Sea mangrove villages, Muslim fishers, working with NGOs, have established community-managed protected areas—repairing seagrass beds destroyed by channel dredging, fighting for dugongs’ food, and shaking their heads at carbon-sink projects fencing off mangroves.
From Trang to Satun Province, fishers’ associations and grassroots NGOs build community-protected areas—countering trawls, patrolling, and advocating for fisheries legislation to balance conservation and livelihoods—then plot responses once the fine-mesh provision is approved.
With Atlantic salmon return-migration survival at just 3% – down from 50% – fewer than 2 million remain wild while some 400 million are penned off Norway’s coast. In Eating to Extinction, BBC journalist Dan Saladino charts the fish’s homeward journey from river to sea and its endangered plight.
Typhoon Huajiasha made landfall on Hailing Island, Yangjiang; Shangchuan Island recorded gusts above Force 17 – Guangdong’s strongest ever at a national-level meteorological station. Fish rafts shattered, citrus and sugarcane flattened; farmers just over ten days from the Mid-Autumn and National Day holiday face near-total wipeout.
CP Foods imported 2,000 Blackchin tilapia from Ghana in 2010 for a breeding trial. After escaping into natural waterways, the fish spread across 19 provinces in Thailand over more than a decade, leaving fishermen with direct losses of 2.486 billion Thai baht.
The Paris Olympics closed last week, but the dust has yet to settle on the doping controversies. The turmoil involved at least three incidents related to food safety: Ultimately, all three incidents were determined to be caused by the consumption of meat products “contaminated” with doping agents, rather than the…
“When the yellow croaker arrives, ten thousand taels of gold follow.” Wild large yellow croakers are traditional banquet staples and auspicious dishes in Zhejiang and Shanghai. Along the Chinese coastline, perhaps no fish has experienced a more turbulent fate than the large yellow croaker. In October this year, I witnessed…
